Kevin Bewersdorf

If you didn’t read Paddy Johnson’s review of the film Twohundredandfiftysixcolors, a feature-length film made of 3,000 GIFS, I recommend checking it out. It’s a good assessment of how GIFs translate to film by somebody who’s been watching the scene for many years from the perspective of both a net-art and cat fanatic.

Johnson finds a point of contention in Kevin Bewersdorf‘s “Mandala” because it had to be compressed to fit the video, and its meaning changes when it’s in a sequence of other GIFs about getting high. We’re on the Internet, but you gotta draw the line somewhere.

Johnson has a soft spot for the piece because she curated this particular work into her 2011 show Graphics Interchange Format and before that it was made in 2008. #tbt

Damn, Jennifer Chan has made one fantastically Zen GIF. Spirituality and GIFs go hand in hand—for some additional evidence, see Kevin Bewersdorf’s entire series of GIF “pearls“—as a slowed-down alternative to the speedy, blinky GIFs you’ll find all over Reddit or Tumblr.

Adding to that slowness, Chan’s GIF isn’t made for easy re-blogging. Her GIF has a Spice Girls soundtrack, but you can only hear it simultaneous with the GIF when viewed on a loop on the GIFbite exhibition website.

Kevin Bewersdorf, Babes, 2008. Observing a curatorial echo chamber privileging appropriation and conceptualism, art critic Jerry Saltz made his own list of artists engaging the plastic arts after 1999. The writer selected nineteen women and fourteen men — thirty-three in total in keeping with the Younger Than Jesus triennial — none of whom have been in a Whitney […]

[Editors note: IMG MGMT is an artist essay series highlighting the diversity of curatorial processes within the art making practice. Today’s invited artist Kevin Bewersdorf will show at V&A this fall in New York, and maintains the website maximumsorrow.com]. Disagreements on the ownership of intellectual property are issues of personal belief, and are therefore spiritual […]